HRS §84-11
Rules on gifts for lawmakers and state workers
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section bans legislators and state employees from taking any gift, in any form, if it could reasonably be seen as trying to influence their official actions or as a reward for something they did. It covers gifts given directly or indirectly, including money, services, loans, trips, or hospitality.
employees
The statute, as written — Gifts
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No legislator or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the legislator or employee in the performance of the legislator's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the legislator's or employee's part.
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